The chief of firemen stands in front of a blazing house. A sobbing woman says her child is still in there. She implores him to send a fireman into the fire to save her child.The chief knows this is impossible. Sheer suicide. There is no chance to rescue the child or to survive the attempt. Nonetheless, a veteran firefighter approaches the pair on his own accord. He volunteers to attempt the impossible. He goes into the fire! But he does not return. Later, the mother goes to the funeral of the firefighter who sacrificed his life trying to save her child. She walks up to his grieving family… What does she do next? - She spits in their face and curses the fallen firefighter for failing to save her child!!! Incredible? Not really. The fallen firefighter was Adolf Hitler. The fire was the communist invasion of Europe. The dead child was every victim of communism. And the ungrateful mother is postwar Europe.
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You conjure a very interesting image, and it is indeed a good metaphor. However, I do not have the intense hatred of Communism that most do. No society has ever produced a viable, healthy Communist state; however, I do believe that much of Communist economic theory is worth examining. The question is, can the theories ever be applied in a socially acceptable and morally correct manner?

You conjure a very interesting image, and it is indeed a good metaphor. However, I do not have the intense hatred of Communism that most do. No society has ever produced a viable, healthy Communist state; however, I do believe that much of Communist economic theory is worth examining. The question is, can the theories ever be applied in a socially acceptable and morally correct manner?

One of the vile things about communism is the belief that mankind can be "improved" (think Darwin, but with money as the driving force, not survival in Nature) using economic laws, which do not take into account "man's basic nature." (There is a "basic nature" to each Race of Man--Black, White, and Oriental; the communist denies even the existence of Race)

To the communist, we are nothing but a collection of atoms and neural signals, chemicals and Pavlovian (conditioned) reactions. There is no "soul", no "Will", no "God", nothing outside of physical, corporeal existence. Our actions are determined by economic needs, not by any notion of "good" or "evil." (This is why they don't believe in Racial differences--we all have the same physical needs (eg, 1400 calories/day, three balanced meals/day, adequate clothing, etc)...any needs above this creates inequality, and "class warfare.")

Their entire economic philosophy is based on this...I would suggest that based on this, there is nothing, or at most *very* little, that might be usable in the communist economic model.